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Genesis and Silvia have been assigned to write about open source and everything that comes with it. Silvia began by   creating this page and the other work has been divided up between both partners.Silvia will also be writing about the GPL, Linus Torvalds and Open Source. Genesis will be writing about Bill Gates, Eric Raymond, and Richard Stallman. In the end, we will both be downloading and reviewing FLOSS applications.

The project began with the viewing of the movie Revolution OS. media type="google" key="7707585592627775409&hl=en" width="400" height="326"

= **Definition** =

  The Free and Open Source Software also known as [|FLOSS] , is software that has been licensed under the conditions that users can constantly fix and improve the program by using the softwares source code. Open Source means that the code is available for users to modify, learn from and build upon.[1] = **History** =

 <span style="color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> <span class="wiki_link_ext">Richard Stallman   <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"> <span style="color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> is the man now known as the founding father of the free software movement and leader of the GNU project. With the growing excitement about the open source movement came along the drama with proprietary software. The man leading the war against open source was none other than Bill Gates, founder of the widely popular [|Microsoft Corporation]. To fight against Gates pressing war to make source code proprietary, Linus Torvalds created the Linux Kernal. [|Linux] is an operating system with an open source code that allows millions of users to collaborate and make the operating system reliable, free of charge and safe. Linux is protected by the GPL, or General Public License, which is a license that allows the contribution and modification of source code under certain conditions such as the redistribution of the code. In 1995, version 1.2 of Linux was being used by 500,000 people. This all changed by 1999 however, with version 2.2 of Linux and an astonishing 12 million users[2]. <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(8, 7, 7); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">In 2001, Eric Raymond published the <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"> popular essay " [|The Cathedral and The Bazaar] <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">". As [|Bob Young] <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">, the co-founder of [|Red Hat] <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"> stated, **"This is Eric Raymond's great contribution to the success of the open source revolution, to the adoption of Linux-based operating systems, and to the success of open source users and the companies that supply them" [3].** Both Linux and open source continue to expand and attract a variety of users as well as develop up to date programs. <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> = <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">**FLOSS Applications** =

Genesis:
 * Mozilla**

Silvia: Audacity**
 * GIMP

= <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">**Conclusion** =

=<span style="font-size: 90%; color: rgb(11, 10, 10); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> <span style="display: block; font-size: 150%; color: rgb(3, 2, 2); font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 240%; color: rgb(237, 29, 139); font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif"><span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left; color: rgb(14, 12, 12)">    = <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif"> Overall, the purpose of this project was to learn about open source, its revolution and the people behind the movement. Without open source and open software, the world would be ruled by men like Bill Gates and proprietary software. FLOSS provides a useful alternative to the expensive programs, operating systems and softwares developed by other individuals. All of the open source programs work just as well as any costly program and are even more reliable because users are constantly updating the source code. Open source has been beneficial to learn about because the class now knows of great alternatives to use when it comes to programs and operating systems.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"> 1.Open Source Definition from Guide to [|ARMLinux] 2. Linux Statistics from [|Revolution OS video] 3 . Robert Young's [|quote]

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